Who are Americans?

Who are the best Presidents in USA history? A January, 2008 Harris Poll survey of Americans found Abraham Lincoln as the ‘best’ President.  How do George Washington, Ronald Reagan and other Presidents rate in this poll?

Mercado Global (New Haven, CT) is an American nonprofit that assists Guatemalan artisans in improving their quality of life by marketing their products in the USA. Conceived and founded by Ruth DeGolia and Benita Singh while studying at Yale University, Mercado Global works to provide the tools, training and logistical support to connect rural women’s [...]

Is America going in the right direction?Asked about the general course of America, 69% of Americans believe America is going in the wrong direction according to a Harris Poll of Americans released in February, 2008. But 76% of Americans said their personal lives are going in the right direction.

The Darfur Stoves Project (San Francisco, CA) is a nonprofit project to provide specially made wood stoves to the Darfur refugees in western Sudan, numbering an estimated 2-million plus displaced people. The stoves were developed by Dr. Ashok Gadgill and a team of engineering students at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, with enhancements from Engineers Without [...]

Coffee Kids, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was founded in 1988 by Bill Fishbein, a specialty coffee roaster and retailer, who was inspired to help alleviate the poverty of coffee growers in Guatemala and other areas of Latin America. Coffee Kids offers programs such as micro-enterprise, health care, education and community based projects.
Local coffee-farming [...]

Who are America’s favorite TV and movie stars? According to two Harris Polls released in January, 2008, Ellen DeGeneres replaces last year’s winner Oprah Winfrey as the top television personality, and Denzel Washington remains the most popular movie star, with Tom Hanks voted to second place.
The top 10 results for the question “Who is your favorite TV [...]

Help Darfur Now (HDN) was founded by 3 New Jersey high school students in 2005 as a nonprofit organization to raise awareness and provide financial aid to the victims of the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. HDN has grown to more than 250 nationwide chapters with thousands of participating students.
HDN has raised over $400,000 for organizations such [...]

Saboba’s Hope (Fullerton, CA) is a nonprofit that supports the Saboba Medical Centre of northern Ghana. The Saboba Medical Centre began in 1949 as a project of the Foreign Missions Department of the Assemblies of God and is still operated as a church-based development and relief program.  The McNutts were the first white family to [...]